Not by your own Feelings

 Do not measure God's love and favor by your own feelings. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day—as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.

—Richard Sibbes

Long for the Appearing of Christ

 Before Christ was come, good people were known by the desire of his coming ... they waited for the consolation of Israel ... But now the first coming is past, they desire as much his second coming ... [and are] such as love and long for the appearing of Christ

- Richard Sibbes

We are His

 “We are weak, but we are His."

- Richard Sibbes

This is the Reason Why

 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 is the reason why God looks upon us with a forbearing eye, notwithstanding the continual matter of displeasure He finds in us: He 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘚𝘰𝘯; His love to us is grounded on His love to Christ.

—Puritan Richard Sibbes, Works 4:120

Comfort is not in our Sanctification

 Another cause of disquiet [in us] is, that men by a natural kind of popery seek for their comfort too much [in] sanctification, neglecting justification.

Paul was of another mind, accounting all but dung, compared to the righteousness of Christ. —Richard Sibbes, Works 1:138

We are not constrained

 Let us open our mouth wide, since Christ is so ready to fill it. We are not constrained in his love, but in our own hearts.

Sibbes

Salvation is like God

 Our salvation is like God, from everlasting to everlasting, from 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 [in eternity past] to [future] 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘺.

—Puritan Richard Sibbes, Works 7:62

Three Great Quotes

 ''God knoweth we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requireth no more than he giveth, and giveth what he requireth, and accepteth what he giveth." - Richard Sibbes

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove. - Charles Spurgeon

''Content not yourselves with...divine truth...you accidentally gain in conversation; but let it be very much your business to search for it, and that with the same diligence and labor with which men are wont to dig in mines of silver and gold." - Jonathan Edwards

"For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish." ~Jeremiah 31:25

We need Bruising

 “After conversion we need bruising so that reeds may know themselves to be reeds, and not oaks. Even reeds need bruising, by reason of the remainder of pride in our nature, and to let us see that we live by mercy. Such bruising may help weaker Christians not to be too much discouraged, when they see stronger ones shaken and bruised…. The heroic deeds of those great [Bible] worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do….. Hence we learn that we must not pass too harsh judgment upon ourselves or others when God exercises us with bruising upon bruising. There must be a conformity to our head, Christ, who ‘was bruised for us’ (Isaiah 53:5) that we may know how much we are bound unto Him.” ~The Bruised Reed, Richard Sibbes (Puritan Paperbacks, page 5)

CHRIST HIMSELF

‎"All promises are either Christ himself, or by Christ, or from Christ, or for Christ. All promises that ever were made to God's people, they were either of Christ Himself, when He was promised, or such as were promised for Christ."

- Richard Sibbes

HIS MISERIES

The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.

—Richard Sibbes

QUICKENS

"Christ quickens none but the dead. Why do not the papists attain to this grace of justification? They never see themselves wholly dead, but join some life to the natural estate of man. Therefore Christ quickens them not."

- Richard Sibbes